It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.

- Ruben Martinez

The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.

- Ruben Martinez

Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration …

- Ruben Martinez

The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that cr…

- Ruben Martinez